BY Seema Kamdar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/07/2012
The BBC film made in 1973 was the last thing that should have appeared on television the day he died.
BY Seema Kamdar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |13/04/2011
All media were plugged into the fast from the word go and stayed there till the last sip of lemon water went down the throats of the protestors. Both scepticism and enthusiasm marked the frenzied coverage of Anna Hazare’s fast at Jantar Mantar.
BY Seema Kamdar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |20/03/2011
It’s nobody’s case that the environment minister is not clean. We don’t know. But it's our job to ask uncomfortable questions of the man who has gone back on his word repeatedly.
BY Seema Kamdar| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |11/11/2010
Why was Ashok Chavan sacked? Clearly, the real reason for this drastic action lies somewhere else.
BY Seema Kamdar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/06/2010
Why can't media houses keep up a relentless coverage on the unseen and ongoing disaster of hunger -- give voices and faces to the voiceless and faceless who live and die in our villages?
BY Seema Kamdar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |10/04/2010
It is about the scary burden of apportioning fame, shame and blame that the media seems to have appropriated for itself. It determines public opinion to an uncomfortable extent.
BY Seema Kamdar| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/02/2010
There is a school of thought that believes that the media has given the Sena its second coming through its over-the-top coverage of the SRK episode.
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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